Category: Essays

Nature Vs. Nurture

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Until recently, the “nature vs. nurture” argument has dominated social work discussions of genetics, human behavior, and development.

For this week’s discussion:

Discuss why this argument is too simplistic and reductionist to reflect current knowledge.
Provide scholarly evidence to support your discussion incorporating ideas from 2 outside peer reviewed journal articles.
Remember to use this discussion to demonstrate that you read and understand this week’s material by relating to and integrating what you are learning with social work knowledge, practice, values, and ethics.

Teachers need to be able to distinguish between various theories of language acquisition

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Teachers need to be able to distinguish between various theories of language acquisition. Understanding the processes involved, how and when the acquisition occurs, and what pace and degree help educators support language development in the classroom.
Create an informative pamphlet on language development for your fellow colleagues in either the Birth-Pre-K or K-3 classroom as a resource they can refer to throughout the year.

In your pamphlet, address the following:

Select two of the primary language acquisition theories (Skinner’s behaviorism, Chomsky’s nativist theory of language development, Functionalism, Piaget’s theory, or Vygotsky’s Socioculturalism), and explain how language develops and is acquired in childhood according to teach theory.
For each selected theory, discuss the roles of socialization and social engagement in language development.
Provide three activities teachers can implement in the classroom to model and reinforce language development.
Provide three specific instructional strategies or tools to support language development for English language learners.
Explain how the language development of young children affects their abilities in adolescence.
Your pamphlet should be organized logically and include a title, section headings, and visuals. Remember your audience and use appropriate tone and verbiage.

 

An American Sickness

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How Healthcare Became Big Business And How You Can Take It Back, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, source: npr.org

BACKGROUND:
It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Rosenthal spells out in clear and practical terms exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship, explaining step by step the workings of a profession sorely lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate a byzantine system and also to demand far-reaching reform. Breaking down the monolithic business into its individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal tells the story of the history of American medicine as never before. The situation is far worse than we think, and it has become like that much more recently than we realize. Hospitals, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Americans are dying from routine medical conditions when affordable and straightforward solutions exist. Dr. Rosenthal explains for the first time how various social and financial incentives have encouraged a disastrous and immoral system to spring up organically in a shockingly short span of time. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

TASKS: Here are this week’s questions for you:
The above is a summary of a book by Dr. Rosenthal. You do not have to buy the book. Use the summary to get you started to think about the topic of the week.
1) What are three major problems in the medical care in the US according to Dr. Rosenthal? Add one or two more issues that you noticed from your own experience, from your work, from your neighborhood, or from the current events. You may agree or disagree with Rosenthal, the author, and write your opinion while answering.
2) Outside of government itself, the largest industry in the United States is the health care industry. Over the past several decades, costs in the health care industry have been increasing at a much faster rate than the rate of inflation in general. What are the reasons of this increasing healthcare cost?

3) The impact of Covid-19 is still around us globally and it placed harsh impacts on the society. Choose three out of the ten economic principles we review this

Main diagnosis for Mary Rose

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Bella is 9 years old and in the 4th grade. Bella’s mother sought treatment due to increasing disruptive behaviors over the past year, including non-compliance, physical aggression toward peers, and frequent behavioral meltdowns which resembled the temper tantrums of a much younger child. Tantrums included screaming, yelling, slamming doors, and crying. Bella and her mother both noted that it was difficult for Bella to “move on” when something angered her. She also noted that Bella had an underlying irritable mood, manifesting as Bella appearing “cranky” most of the time and the family feeling they needed to “walk on eggshells” to avoid upset. At school, at least one phone call home per week was being placed due to Bella’s refusal to comply or sometimes to even speak to her teacher for days at a time. Bella and her mother noted that Bella was generally well-liked by peers and teachers, given that she was hardworking and funny, yet her current disruptive behaviors were causing significant interference in making new friends and meeting academic goals.

Concept Map Information

What is the Main diagnosis for Mary Rose?
What are the Key symptoms?
What differential diagnoses did you consider and why?
What is your treatment recommendation and why?
What is the Prognosis?

Type of human trafficking nationally and internationally.

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provide an overview of a specific type of human trafficking nationally and
internationally. This paper has been broken down into five different assignments throughout the

• Choose a specific type of human trafficking to analyze for this paper such as sex trafficking,
forced labor, child exploitation, peddling, fraud, etc.
o The topic must be approved by your instructor in Unit 2.
• In your paper, you must examine the following aspects of your chosen topic:
o Define the specific elements of this type of human trafficking including: key traits of the
type of human trafficking, demographics of the population effected, geographic area
where this type of human trafficking is prevalent, and other pertinent details.
o Push and Pull Factors which affect this topic.
o Ways to combat this form of human trafficking.
o National and International laws which address this type of human trafficking.

The role of a Cloud Consultant

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Take on the role of a Cloud Consultant explaining to a client why they should or should not consider moving to the cloud. You can choose the type of business that the client runs. Create a two-page (double-spaced, APA format) justification to support your position of moving (or not moving) to the cloud by addressing the following issues at a minimum:

Security
Cost
Support
Maintenance
Replacement
Updates
Personnel Expenses
Infrastructure Expenses

Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean

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1.What is sampling error? In what ways (if any) does changing sample size influence sampling error?

  1. The focus of this week is on discussing the sampling distribution of the sample mean. Suppose that you have a distribution involving a continuous random variable x.

Discuss how one would obtain a distribution of sample means for this continuous random variable x. Cast this discussion within the context of an original real-world example (e.g., IQ scores).
As sample size increases, discuss how the shape of the distribution of sample means changes as well as the influence over the mean and standard deviation of this distribution.

Constructing the Multigenerational Family Genogram

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VIEW THe Genogram Video: Constructing the Multigenerational Family Genogram (https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/constructing-the-multigenerational-family-genogram-exploring-a-problem-in-context FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE ASSIGNMENT , AND THEN DISCUSS:

Perform an explanation of the attached genogram (SEE ATTACHED) to a parent during a patient session.

Generational values and issues and patterns

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Develop a genogram illustration (HANDWRITTEN, not typed) that addresses the following criteria:

Choose a family (for this assignment this can be your own family)
Draw three generations of genealogy, legal family, pets, and others who have played an integral role in the family, if applicable.
Use only STANDARDIZED genogram symbols (SEE SAMPLE ATTACHED) include a key to facilitate understanding and CLARITY.
Show structure of family members: siblings, aunts/uncles, grandparents, remarriages, blended families (step-members and half siblings), divorces, pets, close family friends, and god families.
List dates birth/death, dates of marriage, and divorce. Include the race, ethnicity, culture, place of birth, residency, cause of death, mental health, and substance abuse issues.
Identify family characteristics, i.e., type of family structure, type of marriage/parental union, length of the relationship, type of family, and authority pattern (who has the power).
Identify emotional patterns i.e., close, conflicted, cut off, distant, unknown, passive-aggressive (or fused & conflicted).
Identify family or generational values and issues and patterns: occupation, education, hobbies, military duty, work ethic, family business, religion, addiction/recovery, incarceration, homicide, suicide, reunions, parenting style, mental illness, emigration from the country of birth, marriage within or outside the culture, sexuality, cancer, longevity, foster care, adoption, and child abuse. Every generation manifests its values and issues differently.
Identify social patterns i.e., neighborhoods, communities, places of worship, places of work and education, social clubs.